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71 Participation and its relationship to social justice and democracy. Part I
Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM NB 456 (Faculty of Economics)

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Language: Session Organizer: Isabel DA COSTA, CNRS-IDHE, France Co-Chair: Michal PALGI, Emek Yezreel College, Israel [|71.1] Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:45 AMFaculty of Economics, TBA [|La gobernanza: Qué es y qué propone] (Oral Presentation) Nora Inés RUBBINI, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina En las últimas dos décadas la palabra “gobernanza” apareció, y cada vez con mayor asiduidad, en diversos ámbitos como por ejemplo el de la gestión de entidades privadas, el de las organizaciones internacionales, el de las ciencias sociales y el de las instituciones políticas tanto nacionales como regionales y locales. Sin embargo, no hay consenso en su significado. Asimismo, tal como sucede con el término “globalización”, gobernanza es un término fuertemente ideologizado y polisémico. En este trabajo no se ha pretendido aportar a la conceptualización de la gobernanza, sino hacer una revisión de la literatura sobre el tema. Se reúnen diversas definiciones del concepto gobernanza brindadas tanto por académicos como por organismos ocupados en la temática. Se detalla qué implica para ellos la gobernanza y cómo proponen llevarla a la práctica. Se inicia el trabajo enunciando sintéticamente los orígenes del término y la evolución que el concepto ha tenido en los últimos cuarenta años. Se presentan distintas definiciones vigentes del concepto gobernanza, ofrecidas por diferentes autores según el ámbito, nivel o área de aplicación al que refieran. También se expone la diferencia entre gobernanza y otros términos a veces usados (a nuestro entender erróneamente) como sinónimo de ella: gobernancia y gobernabilidad. Luego se desarrolla la concepción que en estos días se tiene de la gobernanza en los dos grandes ámbitos: la empresa y los asuntos públicos (ya sean estos a nivel local, nacional o supranacional). En el caso de lo público utilizamos algunos párrafos para describir qué se entiende por gobernabilidad y cómo a partir de la evidente brecha entre la gobernabilidad en la teoría y en la realidad es que se abre camino al concepto de gobernanza. Como cierre nos permitimos plasmar algunas reflexiones que pudimos esbozar luego de todo el material consultado para realizar este trabajo.

[|71.2] Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:55 AM Faculty of Economics, TBA [|Diversité, justice et parité de participation] (Oral Presentation) Christian MAHIEU, CNRS, France En France, les politiques concernant la diversité se développent, mais montrent leurs limites. En effet, la redistribution occupe une place dominante dans la conception de la justice sociale. Le débat sur la diversité a alors tendance à se polariser autour de deux conceptions. La première promeut la diversité, soit en gommant les différences au nom d’une notion neutre de compétence, soit en faisant de la différence un facteur de compétitivité dans une économie ouverte au monde. La seconde tend à ne voir la diversité que sous l’angle des inégalités qu’elle masque. Nancy Fraser nous propose une conception de la justice sociale fondée sur deux dimensions complémentaires, la redistribution et la reconnaissance, associées à deux types d’injustices qui se combinent, l’injustice économique (marginalisation ou exclusion) et l’injustice de type symbolique (domination culturelle par imposition de stéréotypes sociaux). Elle nous permet de réinterpréter la reconnaissance en remplaçant l’identité par le statut de partenaire à part entière de l’interaction sociale. En quoi les initiatives prises au nom des politiques de diversité, contribuent-elles à diffuser une « norme de parité de participation ». L’approche par cette norme renforce la compréhension des transformations du travail dans ses dimensions expressive, publique et politique ainsi qu’au travers des registres politiques de l’égalité et du « juste ». Elle répond aux questions de responsabilité et d’éthicité au cœur des organisations, de la participation à la discussion, de l’appartenance à la communauté de délibération et de la construction de capacités à l’argumentation. Enfin, elle contribue à une nouvelle problématisation de la notion d’espace public et de démocratie délibérative qui polarise les enjeux de justice sociale au sein de cet espace. C’est sous ces différents aspects que les initiatives prises au titre des politiques de diversité peuvent alors être examinées.

[|71.3] Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 11:05 AM Faculty of Economics, TBA [|Can there be social justice and democracy without participation in economic self-management and political self-government?] (Oral Presentation) Vera VRATUSA, University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia The aim of this paper is to explore past, present and future relevance of participation, self-management and self-government theory and practice in the historical circumstances of global accumulation of capital systemic crisis in search for just and democratic alternatives to unjust, exploitative, oligarchic and ecologically destructive commodity market production with privatized means of production for private profit. The main finding of the critical analyses of the past (ex-Yugoslavia) and present (Venezuela, Argentina...) economic self-management and political self-government attempts to overcome class division of labor between rulers and ruled at all levels of social life reproduction, identifies the main obstacle to realization of social justice and democracy in twofold activity of global financial oligarchy to perpetuate capitalist mode of production. The first activity concerns manipulation of formal participation of wage workers in corporations and citizens in parliamentary elections as an organizational technology for reduction of its management costs and domestication of the governed. The second activity concerns privatization and imperialist control of natural and social conditions of social life reproduction of the rest of humanity through violent recolonization process. The way for overcoming this obstacle to realization of social justice and democracy is found in self-managing and self-governing theoretical and practical activity of the rest of humanity based on drawing lessons from and avoidance of deficiencies of previous historical attempts to overcome class division of labor and capitalist mode of production.

NB: Unfortunately I will not be able to meet any of you in person this August. Practically until today I hoped that miracle would happen and I would find the sponsor for the airplane ticket, but miracle did not happen. My only consolation is the existence of the internet subpage of our ISA RC10 Internet Forum at http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/ISA+2012 with potential or already active sub-sub pages for all sessions, where all interested can participate in discussion of themes of common interest whether they were able to come to Buenos Aires or not.

In quantitative terms, absence of any presenter means more time for those who did come than it was originally planned. The problem becomes qualitative if too many participants of some session do not come. Concretely in session **71 Participation and its relationship to social justice and democracy**. Part I, the time slot of 10 minutes beginning on Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 11:05 AM Faculty of Economics, TBA, which was planned for my oral presentation will prolong the time for presentation of four remaining presenters if they come for 2,5 minutes. In terms of content, I would be most grateful if the panelists who do come to Buenos Aires report in the discussion part of this page  what are the main results of the discussion on the spot on this session’s title theme.

[|71.4] Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 11:15 AM Faculty of Economics, TBA [|Public sphere and environment] (Distributed Paper) Roberta CAVA, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil; Aline Michelle Nascimento AUGUSTINHO , Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Brazil The advance of techonologies, especially the mass communication means, had approached not only the world economies, but also cultures and societies. The emergency of a called //global society// brings the coletivities together, and throws them into planetary orbit. It promotes a redefinition of the Nation-State and, consequently, a reflection of the traditional public sphere concept. Observing the new amplitude of communicational flows allows to observe the rising of civil society on international scenary. Its space for deliberation is related to comprehensions of international dinamic, as well to the human relations transcending national frontiers. National movements point out the recognizement of the transversality of human interests, marked by world public opinion tendencies, tied to the informational growth and the globalization process. This research intends to approach Jürgen Habermas’ public sphere traditional concept, revisited in a transnational dimension, once themes previously belonging to national agendas move to world agenda, establishing commom concerns, as environment and climate change.

[|71.5] Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 11:25 AM Faculty of Economics, TBA [|The master of disguise: Hidden faces of participation, ageism, and their cultural meanings] (Oral Presentation) Julia ROZANOVA, University of British Columbia, Canada not available

395 Participation and its relationship to social justice and democracy. Part II
Thursday, August 2, 2012: 4:15 PM-5:45 PM NB 456 (Faculty of Economics)

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee) RC11 Sociology of Aging

Language: Session Organizer: Isabel DA COSTA, CNRS-IDHE, France Chair: Martine REVEL, Université Lille, France [|395.1] [|Promotion of participation and citizenship in europe. engaging citizens in the fight against corruption through the advocacy and legal advice centres of transparency international] (Oral Presentation) Angelos GIANNAKOPOULOS, University of Konstanz, Germany; Dirk TAENZLER , University of Konstanz, Germany

[|395.2] [|Right to health and sanitary democracy: Bridges to citizenship] (Oral Presentation) Rachelle BALBINOT, Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Direito Sanitário, Brazil; Sueli DALLARI , Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

[|395.3] [|From the goal of regulating to the emancipatory capacity of participation in health] (Oral Presentation) Fátima ALVES, CEMRI/FCT - Centre for the Studies of Migrations and Intercultural Relations/Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

[|395.4] [|Nuevos actores políticos en la democracia participativa. organizaciones afros e indígenas en la construcción de políticas públicas en Cali] Cristian David GARCIA CAICEDO, Universidad del Valle- Facultad de Socioeconomía , Colombia

[|395.5] [|The relationship between research and improvement of police stations through community oversight] (Oral Presentation) Ludmila RIBEIRO, UFMG, Brazil